An edition of Storia notturna (1989)

Ecstasies

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Ecstasies
Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg
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An edition of Storia notturna (1989)

Ecstasies

New Ed edition
  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 11 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, men and women in Europe accused of witchcraft told how they were taken to the Sabbath—the nocturnal gathering before the devil at which they took part in orgies and obscene parodies of Christian rites, eating corpses and casting spells. These accounts, usually extracted by torture, are regarded by most historians today as the products of the inquisitors' own obsessions.

Ecstasies is the culmination of Carlo Ginsburg's longstanding fascination with popular myths that are shared across different cultures and eras. An expert in the field of microhistory—the archaeology of the marginalized and forgotten elements of human history—Ginsburg here compares and follows the stories and their forms, and gradually they begin to weave together into new and startling patterns. Why, for example, in 1321 were Jews and lepers the object of frenzied persecution, accused of conspiring to take over the French kingdom? What do Oedipus, Achilles, and Cinderella have in common? The answers to these questions and more lead to compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across the European continent for thousands of years.

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Penguin Books Ltd
Pages
368

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Cover of: Ecstasies
Ecstasies: deciphering the witches' Sabbath
1992, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Ecstasies
Ecstasies
November 26, 1992, Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Historia nocturna
Historia nocturna: un desciframiento del aquelarre
1991, Muchnik
in Spanish
Cover of: Ecstasies
Ecstasies: deciphering the witches' Sabbath
1991, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st American ed.

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First Sentence

"1. In 1321, we read in the chronicle of the monastery of St Stephen of Condom, a great deal of snow fell during the month of February."

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Paperback
Number of pages
368

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Open Library
OL9303978M
ISBN 10
0140173137
ISBN 13
9780140173130
OCLC/WorldCat
27815182
Library Thing
20711

First Sentence

"1. In 1321, we read in the chronicle of the monastery of St Stephen of Condom, a great deal of snow fell during the month of February."

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